This can be a rush transcript from “Your World,” April 19, 2022. This copy will not be in its ultimate type and could also be up to date.

NEIL CAVUTO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: We knew this second was coming. It has arrived. The land battle is on proper now in Jap Ukraine.

And we’re informed two-thirds of all Russian troopers are within the nation, concentrating on the east, and attempting to complete the job in what some are calling Vladimir Putin 2.0, a second probability to show round what for him no less than, has been a disastrous battle.

Welcome, all people. I am Neil Cavuto, and that is YOUR WORLD.

This is how dangerous issues are getting over there. The Worldwide Financial Fund is saying it’s affecting all of us right here, chopping its forecast for international progress to little greater than 3.5 %. To place that in perspective, earlier than the battle started, most thought it could be no less than double.

That was then, that is now, the fact of a battle that is not letting up, and proper now has Russian troopers doubling down.

Jeff Paul has the most recent from Lviv — Jeff.

JEFF PAUL, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Sure, Neil, Moscow would possibly really feel and examine this battle as liberating the Donbass and that area, however you discuss to on a regular basis Ukrainians, they usually say it is a far cry from how they really feel about this battle, particularly once you take a look at what is going on on within the east.

That is the place there are millions of Russian troops proper now dotted alongside a whole bunch of miles of land inside that jap area of Ukraine. There have been stories of large waves of artillery and rockets within the area, and Ukrainian forces, we should always point out, have been combating Russian-backed separatists for the previous eight years within the Donbass.

In reality, the Kremlin views each the Luhansk and Donetsk areas as separate impartial republics. However President Vladimir Zelenskyy has lengthy vowed to not surrender any Ukrainian territory, and, at his most up-to-date tackle, as soon as once more hammered away at that time.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (by means of translator): Irrespective of what number of Russian troops are pushed there, we’ll combat. We’ll defend ourselves and we’ll do it daily. We cannot surrender something Ukrainian.

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PAUL: Past the east, the south, most notably, the coastal metropolis of Mariupol, stays a heavy focus of Ukrainian forces. Moscow issued a brand new deadline for the remaining troops who’re holding out to put down their arms.

However these remaining Ukrainian forces are defiant. They vowed to remain, though they’re severely outnumbered — Neil.

CAVUTO: Jeff, thanks very a lot for that.

So, what’s at stake right here? And the place is it at stake? You’ve heard an amazing deal about Jap Ukraine, nevertheless it’s much more than simply Jap Ukraine. There are pockets and, in fact, pockets that Russian troopers need to seize and ensure as quickly as doable.

Invoice Hemmer following all of that.

Hey, Invoice.

BILL HEMMER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: How do you do, Neil? Good to see you in studio.

Look, this can be a new part for the battle. It has been a while since we checked out this map. If you happen to do me a favor, guys, and present me the map the place Ukrainians management the north and the Russians management the southeast, primarily it, proper? Right here within the north is the blue space. Take it again one time, please. Thanks very a lot.

And the blue space, the place the Ukrainians now management the north, after which the Russians. Thanks. We will get this proper, Neil, I assure you, OK?

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HEMMER: That is the border that Jeff Paul’s describing. And it runs 300 miles right here to the east on Ukraine.

And a variety of the exercise right here, the place the Ukrainians moved again into the realm, the Russians left, that is Putin’s new technique now. And that is the place — that is the place the battle will likely be fought. Go forward, advance it one time.

And I’ll present you particularly on this space. Izyum is a city that was simply taken by the Russians simply this week. Why is that essential? As a result of they make these incremental strikes, Neil. It is gradual. It is a slog. The Ukrainians push again. The Russians keep within the combat.

This can be a city of about 50,000. Why is that essential? There’s a freeway that connects Izyum with Slovyansk. Slovyansk is a city that is twice the scale of Izyum. Eight years in the past, after they had this battle, the Russians took Slovyansk, and the Ukrainians took it again from them.

Throughout that battle of 2014, the Ukrainians held that city. Putin needs it again. We’re about to see whether or not or not that is doable. So the freeway that connects these two — if the Russians are capable of take each of those cities, you’ll be able to see what they clearly have. They’ve a route now to start out this march on the Western fringe of Southeastern Ukraine.

They may block that space off. Then they received three factors the place they might assault, from the north, from the south and from the east. So we’ll see whether or not or not they’re profitable at this.

On my Kramatorsk on the map right here, Neil, that is the place that missile is went into that prepare station final week, killed 50 Ukrainians ready to be evacuated. This can be a city of 150,000 individuals. You see the technique now that the Russians try to mount. To the southeast we go. Advance it one time.

And this can be a battle that continues now within the city of Mariupol that we talked about for, what, what’s it been, a month-and-a-half proper now, 55 days? Mariupol remains to be hanging powerful on the behalf of the Ukrainians. However this isn’t part of the nation that appears favorable for Ukraine.

I’ll clarify that in a second right here. If that is Putin’s technique, he is carried out a reasonably good job thus far of simply occupying this space. There are bits the place you see right here the Ukrainians push again. It isn’t solely managed by Putin’s military, however he is received a reasonably good bead on it now. Advance it one time and take a look at Mariupol.

What is going on inside this? There are holdouts nonetheless to this present day. What number of troopers, we can not say. However this can be a metal plant, the place they’ve taken refuge they usually have continued the combat. Finally test, there have been 1,000 civilians at that metal plant. There are numerous troopers as effectively.

Simply final hour, the Russians stated, we’ll do a cease-fire tomorrow, help you evacuate. If you happen to hold your phrase, then the metal plant falls and the Russians take, primarily, this a part of town, one other half right here the place combating remains to be beneath manner.

However in the event you can return one time right here on the map, you’ll be able to see now why Mariupol is so essential to Putin’s technique. You are taking it, and that is the land bridge that we’ve been describing now with Common Jack Keane and so many others for the previous 55 days. They’re near getting it. However as John Kirby stated on the Pentagon simply final hour, don’t rely the Ukrainians out.

For the time being, that is the place we’re, Neil, on the map.

CAVUTO: Superb. Simply wonderful. Invoice, thanks very a lot.

Invoice Hemmer following all these developments right here.

Let’s go to Lieutenant Colonel Danny Davis on this.

As Invoice was type of outlining there, Putin does have a head begin on the jap portion of the nation, proper, Colonel? I imply, he has locked down a majority of that jap half. That is to lock down the remainder of it, presumably. Do you assume that that is his manner of claiming, if there are to be talks ultimately and leaving the nation, that he needs to go away with these lands captured or already taken as his prize?

LT. COL. DANNY DAVIS (RET.), U.S. ARMY: Properly, there is no query that that is a big portion of what he is attempting to do.

And he is really been fairly out entrance and outspoken on saying precisely these issues. However I feel the first goal right here shouldn’t be a lot the territory as it’s he is attempting to slowly and partition off these totally different Ukrainian battle teams, after which probably attempt to strangle them and destroy them piecemeal.

So I feel that it is the items of the Ukraine army, much more than the terrain. And I feel that the largest concern shouldn’t be that Russia continues with this methodical frontal method, which is what they’ve been doing thus far and holding individuals in place, that they could strive a big flanking maneuvers to attempt to get round behind them, after which minimize them off.

And it is much more troublesome for Ukraine to proceed to defend if they cannot get any resupplies in. And that is the larger hazard, I feel, to the Ukraine troops.

CAVUTO: , they’ve additionally been locking down a variety of these port cities we discuss and made it very, very troublesome for assist to come back in. Now a great deal of the army tools, Colonel, that President Zelenskyy was searching for, he is gotten, together with many of those howitzers he is been pushing for.

However is that sufficient?

DAVIS: No.

And we have to perceive, I feel Invoice simply talked about, that this can be a 300-mile entrance line right here stretches throughout areas. There’s about 40,000 Ukrainians which are defending their.

These 18 U.S. howitzers, if all of them get by means of, as a result of it is a problem to get them throughout Ukraine in there, they’ve a variety of about 24 kilometers, which is perhaps 17 miles or so. So that you’re speaking — it is a dot on the map. One of the best that every one of those can do is simply assist slightly bit right here.

All of the ammunition has to come back from the U.S. So, as soon as they expend that, they need to hold getting increasingly and extra solely from the U.S., as a result of their ammunition would not work in that. So we’ve to grasp that is really a really restricted functionality, even when it will get there.

CAVUTO: , I am curious, colonel, What concerning the — it appears to be like like — and, once more, it is all the time a hazard to say appears to be like like — that Russian forces have given up on taking Kyiv in the intervening time.

But when that they had success on the jap aspect of the nation, and lock it down, so to talk, would they revisit that, or then what? What occurs subsequent?

DAVIS: Proper. That is certainly one of my issues.

And what I am watching for many out of this battle, if the Russians do what I worry they could, which is the encirclement and chopping off these troops, now then they’ve — effectively, they’ve, in accordance with the Pentagon, nearly 80 battalion tactical teams proper now.

If, with out expending too many, they get that minimize off, now then they’ll flip these, both again up into Kharkiv, the place they nonetheless have an offensive happening, or perhaps going even down into the south to take Odessa, which proper now could be manner too far.

But when they get these items minimize off, these come into play. And, in fact, in the event you get both a type of, then Kyiv might once more come into play. So that is removed from over. And I do not assume that the Donbass is Putin’s solely goal.

CAVUTO: Colonel Danny Davis, nice seeing you once more, Colonel and providing your perspective right here.

Earlier than we take a break right here and get to form of what’s developing in our subsequent phase right here, I do need to draw your consideration to the nook of Wall and Broad. The Dow was sprinting up at present, having little or no to do with this battle escalating. But it surely did this even within the face of a lot increased rates of interest. For instance, a 10-year observe is closing in on 3 %.

What meaning for you is, we’ve mortgage charges that are actually going to shut in at 5.5 %, some say a matter of time earlier than they hit 6 %. However, markets proceed to advance as a result of firms all through all of this are reporting some boffo numbers, usually significantly better than anticipated.

We’re nonetheless very early in earnings season. I need to stress that. However most of them are saying that they’ll see some mild on the finish of the tunnel. And they don’t envision, for instance, Ukraine battle dragging on for years. They assume stability will return. We hope so.

Within the meantime, looking at our personal border and a few large numbers which have simply been reached, they usually’re outdated numbers, at that, lengthy earlier than the Title 42 problem.

Invoice Melugin is there — Invoice.

BILL MELUGIN, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Neil, good afternoon to you.

Yet one more small baby has been discovered deserted on the border. No mother and father, no guardians by any means. And developing after the break, you are going to learn the way many of those unaccompanied kids had been discovered right here on the border final month alone. And the numbers are completely staggering.

That is developing.

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CAVUTO: Properly, when you have heard this as soon as, you’ve gotten heard it 1,000 instances.

As soon as Title 42 goes away, anticipate an explosion of migrants on the border. What you most likely haven’t heard about going into at present is that we have already got one, and far greater than we ever thought.

Invoice Melugin with extra from the border — Invoice.

MELUGIN: Neil, good night to you.

Even with Title 42 in place, there was nonetheless a large quantity of exercise right here in Del Rio Sector over the vacation weekend, greater than 2,300 unlawful crossings right here and 57 unaccompanied minors encountered right here on this sector.

Within the meantime, the unlawful crossings proceed day in and day trip right here. And check out this video we shot proper right here in Eagle Move earlier this morning. What we had been taking a look at is, we noticed a number of teams of migrants really operating as much as the Mexican aspect of the river, jogging up, showing to need to get down there quick to keep away from any Mexican authorities in case they tried to cease them.

Inside moments, these migrants would then get into the water, household unit, single adults, some bringing their younger kids, and they might begin crossing illegally into Texas. And Del Rio Sector has seen this daily. It’s extremely busy. They’ve had greater than 220,000 encounters simply since October. And their numbers are up 170 % over the identical time final 12 months.

And due to that, that is occurring. Check out this video proper right here additionally shot in Eagle Move yesterday. What you are taking a look at is yet one more mass launch of greater than 500 migrants from federal custody at an NGO right here in Eagle Move, most of those being single adults. As we talked about, the numbers are exploding and Border Patrol services are shedding capability.

So these mass releases have been beneath manner for weeks, generally months now. And this NGO then places lots of them in vans they usually take them elsewhere, generally to San Antonio Airport, to go all throughout the nation.

Now, check out this photograph right here from Border Patrol’s El Paso sector. What you are taking a look at is a 3-year-old little woman who was utterly deserted by smugglers. This was in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. That little woman had no mother and father, no guardians together with her. And, fortunately, these brokers had been there to avoid wasting her and hold her protected.

And the V.P. of the Border Patrol union says that that problem, these deserted — these deserted children, is turning into a serious, main drawback. Take a pay attention.

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ART DEL CUETO, VICE PRESIDENT, BORDER PATROL UNION: It is persevering with to occur as a result of, once more, there is no such thing as a penalties for people coming throughout our borders.

In America, the place you’ll be able to’t even depart a canine inside a automotive with the home windows rolled up, but people are allowed to show over their kids to drug smugglers, human smugglers, intercourse traffickers, and, on the finish, are going through zero penalties for it.

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MELUGIN: And, Neil, that photograph you simply noticed there with that little woman, that’s definitely not an remoted incident.

CBP stories that, final month, in March alone, they discovered greater than 14,000 of those unaccompanied kids on the border. That’s an 18 % improve over the month of February.

We’ll ship it again to you.

CAVUTO: And, as you’ve gotten reported, doubtless extra to come back.

Invoice Melugin, thanks very a lot.

To McAllen, Texas, Mayor Javier Villalobos.

Mayor, I imply, you are seeing this and getting the numbers and also you’re following it since you see them firsthand. That is going to get even worse, is not it?

JAVIER VILLALOBOS, MAYOR OF MCALLEN, TEXAS: Particularly with the superior discover of just about a month-and-a-half, we all know what is going on on over there. And we all know what is going on to occur.

The final time Hidalgo County right here in McAllen was, we had been just about on the middle of it. And we all know what we’re anticipating. After all, that is why I wrote a letter to the president asking them, look, we want the funding, we want assist. It isn’t our duty, however we’ll do what we have to do.

And so we’re able to do what we are able to, though it is not our duty.

CAVUTO: Clearly, that is creating some angst on either side of the political aisle, increasingly Democrats — we will pursue that within the subsequent phase mayor — who’re involved that this can be a dangerous coverage to simply junk Title 42 proper now.

Do you envision that being sufficient to perhaps change the administration’s plans?

VILLALOBOS: Properly, we hope so.

And that was exactly one of many causes — you’ve gotten points, to begin with, with immigration. After which that is even setting apart the COVID points, having COVID improve in numerous states. So, there’s a variety of points. And we carry on telling them, look, it is a — do what you bought to do. And we do not place blame or need to on both aspect of the aisle.

However what we want them to do is begin working, begin fascinated with the American individuals, and never about partisan politics. It is affecting us. We should not be spending a single cent right here within the metropolis of McAllen for a federal problem. We carry on asking them. We’re asking them, work for the American individuals.

CAVUTO: Mayor, a lot has been stated as effectively about so many of those who’re caught, moderately than being processed, for instance, in Texas, they’ll Washington, D.C. Others have advocated spreading the wealth round and sending them to different cities within the nation.

How do you’re feeling about that?

VILLALOBOS: what?

I feel when Governor Abbott talked about what he was going to do final week, it was initially, effectively, how’s he going to do it? It was a voluntary deal. The sooner we transfer them, the higher it’s for our neighborhood right here within the Rio Grande Valley and McAllen.

Logistically, it will be a nightmare. If we’ve individuals which are keen to go elsewhere instantly, just like the governor, Governor Abbott, deliberate, we’re all for it. We’re all for shifting individuals, as a result of we do not take a place whether or not they’re entitled to asylum or not.

What we wish is to maneuver them out as quickly as doable, as a result of we should not be even taking part in part of this.

CAVUTO: How are they conserving observe of them? Are you aware, Mayor?

VILLALOBOS: I do not assume they’re.

CAVUTO: Proper.

VILLALOBOS: As a matter of truth, we — bear in mind, we can not maintain them, We won’t detain them. They’re free to go and do as they please.

Happily, a variety of the instances, they stick round, whether or not it is in Catholic Charities or totally different shelters we’ve been capable of arrange. And we are able to semi get an thought of who’s who and what’s — and the place they are going. However we’ve no proper to detain them. They’ll do no matter they need to do. And that is one of many greatest issues we’ve.

CAVUTO: All proper, Mayor, I need to thanks very, very a lot.

Mayor Javier Villalobos, who’s attempting to take care of this himself in McAllen, Texas. It’s a Herculean process, and to listen to everybody inform it, it will get quite a bit worse, which might clarify why increasingly Democrats now are saying it is time for President Biden to reverse course right here and junk the concept of junking Title 42, amongst them, Maggie Hassan, the Democratic senator from New Hampshire, who was with the president at present.

Do not know if she introduced up that topic with him, however no less than 17 different Democratic senators had — after this.

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CAVUTO: Netflix shares are tumbling greater than 20 % proper now in after-hours buying and selling, as a result of, for the primary time in a decade, it is shedding clients. By no means seen that.

And a former canine of the Dow, IBM, its revenues beating. It is on fireplace — after this.

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CAVUTO: Properly, it began with a trickle, then became a tsunami, Democrat Mark Warner among the many first to query the president’s plan to junk Title 42.

After which it moved on to get Congressman Gonzalez, Democrat of Texas. Then it prolonged to on and on to see the Congressman — or Senator Masto of New York. Then we began to see increasingly gamers, increasingly Democrats beginning to fear about it. We went from one to 3 to 6 to 12 to 18 by final rely, Democratic representatives all, who had been saying this transfer in an election 12 months, a midterm election 12 months, the place every thing is on the road for Democrats, to scrap Title 42 in Could can be deadly for the get together come November.

Let’s get the learn on all of this and the importance of all of this with Mercedes — or Sarah Westwood, I ought to say, of The Washington Examiner.

Sarah, I apologize for that.

Clearly, they’re feeling the political warmth, that this can be a large problem, and much from simply border states, all the best way far north as Montana proper now, final time I checked nearer to Canada than it’s to Mexico. What do you make of this?

SARAH WESTWOOD, THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Sure, Neil, you are seeing a number of the typical suspects, Joe Manchin, for instance, in there criticizing President Biden.

However, on this, you are additionally seeing Democrats who very not often break with Biden popping out and criticizing his determination to finish Title 42, as a result of, as his approval rankings are falling so precipitously, there’s simply little or no upside and more and more a bigger draw back for sticking with Biden in defending a call that is so unpopular, as a result of, to begin with, the Biden administration has mishandled this form of from begin to end, particularly on the subject of messaging.

On the similar time they had been asserting an finish to Title 42, form of declaring the COVID emergency over, sufficient to raise this public well being order, they had been reinstating the masks mandates on airplanes, form of saying that the emergency is over sufficient to make this very unpopular immigration transfer, nevertheless it’s nonetheless pressing sufficient that it’s a must to put on a masks once you get on Amtrak or on an airplane.

So, from that perspective, the messaging was utterly bungled. And I feel a variety of these Democrats see what’s coming down the pipe. They see, no less than hear from specialists that there is going to be a large surge in unlawful immigration over the border when this coverage ends, they usually do not need to have been on the file defending a call that disastrous.

CAVUTO: I am simply questioning, although, if their protest is just too little too late, or perhaps a Maggie Hassan, who expresses help for the president just about in any respect different points, however not this one — I feel she even filmed a marketing campaign advert on the wall. What do you make of that?

WESTWOOD: I feel there’s simply little or no incentive to defend the Biden administration on this.

They anticipate the photographs of individuals streaming over the border, the detention facilities which are overflowing, every thing that is doubtless coming within the weeks forward, they usually do not need to have sound bites that their opponents can seize and run towards them of getting defended the president on this.

But it surely’s not simply immigration. You are additionally seeing Democrats emboldened to come back out and depart from the Biden administration’s agenda on issues from COVID mandates, to inflation, to the battle in Ukraine. They’re much less and fewer afraid of taking over the Biden White Home. He would not have a variety of political capital to spend on Capitol Hill.

And there is little or no to realize from standing by a president that unpopular, when the constituents you are attempting to steer in November aren’t essentially very liberal, aren’t very progressive, the best way Biden has been leaning, and are going to be casting their ballots based mostly on how they assume Biden has carried out.

It isn’t that every one of those voters are going into the poll field and casting their votes based mostly on immigration, however they will be weighing in on how Biden dealt with his workplace. And if he presides over an immigration debacle, that may feed this notion that he is not match to deal with the problems they do care about, like inflation and like crime.

CAVUTO: Properly, it might additionally have an effect on Democratic voter turnout, too. In the event that they’re annoyed which manner the nation goes they usually historically vote Democrat, however they decide to not go to the opposite aspect of the ledger but, in the event that they’re sitting at dwelling, that will likely be simply as powerful for Democrats, would not it?

WESTWOOD: Completely.

I imply, a variety of these Democrats, particularly within the Home races, had been put in workplace not essentially by liberal Democrats, however by centrist voters who’re perhaps uncomfortable with Donald Trump, however who positively aren’t progressive, and who will certainly reply to pictures of an immigration disaster, and who’re frightened about paying increased costs for gasoline and for groceries, and who’re frightened about their neighborhoods being protected.

They are not going to be attentive to the progressive narrative on immigration. And people Democrats have to fret about conserving individuals who solely just lately pulled the lever for Democrats of their nook.

CAVUTO: Sure, dangerous timing, as they are saying.

Sarah Westwood, thanks, Sarah with The Washington Examiner.

Properly, have any of you ever gone to Disney World? An excellent many have, clearly. Properly, have you learnt it’s so large and so essential in Florida and has been for thus many a long time that it has its personal zoning, its personal police division, its personal fireplace division, its personal, effectively, fairly actually, no pun supposed, little kingdom?

That’s, till at present, with indicators that Governor DeSantis needs to take away all of these privileges. And let’s simply say Mickey may very well be in hassle — after this.

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QUESTION: Will you go to Kyiv, Mr. President?

JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The reply is, I do not know.

QUESTION: Is your administration going to attraction the masks mandate ruling?

BIDEN: I’ve not gotten any transient from my CDC. I do not know.

QUESTION: When will you discuss to CDC?

BIDEN: Observe the science.

QUESTION: Do you need to go to Ukraine?

BIDEN: Been to Ukraine many instances. Have not been there just lately. Greater than every other (OFF-MIKE). I am the one one which has spoken with the Rada twice.

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CAVUTO: All proper, that is nearly unimaginable to listen to. I apologize for that.

However the president responding in New Hampshire, visiting Portsmouth at present. First, on visiting Ukraine, hasn’t actually stated something as as to whether he would or not, however on the masks factor and whether or not he would attraction a choose’s ruling in Florida to nix the entire thing, indicated that he is nonetheless taking a look at that, I feel one thing to the impact that the CDC, he wished to speak to them about that, as a result of that goes towards what the CDC had beneficial, to maintain masks on for fairly a bit longer. That stops now.

Grady Trimble at Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport, the place that is extra aid than anything — Grady.

GRADY TRIMBLE, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Reduction, however that is all very confounding for vacationers too, Neil, as a result of not one of the main airways are making passengers hold their masks on whereas they’re on the airplane.

However, technically, at some airports, you continue to do must have a masks on. Right here at O’Hare and Halfway in Chicago and JFK and La Guardia in New York, you’ve got to observe their masks mandates which are put in place by native and state entities.

However I’ll say right here at O’Hare, no less than, I have never seen that being enforced.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, positively complicated, inconsistent, irritating.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Life is a confusion, proper?

TRIMBLE: And that is no exception?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is completely no exception.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I feel there must be some form of particular determination to get rid of that confusion.

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TRIMBLE: President Biden did not assist clear up the confusion. He stated it is as much as vacationers whether or not they need to hold sporting masks whereas flying. And a variety of the individuals we’ve seen on the airport at present have opted to maintain their masks on.

When requested if his administration goes to attraction the choose’s determination to strike down the masks mandate, you might need been capable of hear it in that clip only a second in the past. President Biden stated he hasn’t spoken to the CDC about it but. Press Secretary Jen Psaki did not rule it out.

For the entire confusion that has ensued over the past 24 hours, although, it appears the preliminary response, no less than from individuals who had been on board flights after they received information that they did not need to put on their masks anymore, their response was celebratory.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is over instantly. Congratulations.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

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TRIMBLE: Uber and Lyft adopted go well with as effectively at present, dropping masks necessities for each drivers and passengers.

They, in fact, usually are not beneath the purview of that CDC masks mandate. So, even when the White Home does attraction, they’ll make their very own determination as to whether or not they need to convey it again or not — Neil.

CAVUTO: Grady, thanks very a lot for that.

Grady Trimble in Chicago.

In the meantime, specializing in Florida for a second, do any of you keep in mind that parental rights and training invoice, the so-called do not say homosexual regulation, which doesn’t enable gender id or sexual orientation teachings to be supplied to children as younger as kindergarten as much as the third grade?

And, once more, the governor, by implementing this, stated that it was a approach to form of get this to be age-appropriate in successive grades. Properly, Disney World and the mum or dad firm, Disney, took a take a look at that and stated that they had been going to review that, as a result of they thought it was unfair.

And that was sufficient to get Governor DeSantis to say that perhaps what will likely be unfair is the particular standing that you just take pleasure in as a form of stand-alone entity, with its personal fireplace division, personal police division. It actually is its personal world.

And that was a problem I raised with the lieutenant governor, as a result of her boss is saying that we should finish. Have a look.

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LT. GOV. JEANETTE NUNEZ (R-FL): It in the end has to come back right down to what’s in one of the best pursuits of Floridians, not essentially what’s in one of the best pursuits of firms. The 2 usually are not mutually unique.

And we need to make it possible for we’re all the time placing Floridians first. So this may clearly have its day. Will probably be debated. Will probably be mentioned.

CAVUTO: Proper.

NUNEZ: There will likely be get all types of forwards and backwards, however I feel that, in the end, what the legislature will do, I imagine that they may rescind it. And we’ll see the place it goes from there.

CAVUTO: So in the event that they — Disney World had been — Disney, to — the mum or dad firm, had been to say, all proper, we cannot be combating this, we’re not eager on this new regulation, however we cannot be combating it, would that be sufficient to guard the particular standing?

NUNEZ: I do not need to put the 2 points face to face, as a result of I feel that there’s something to be mentioned. Why ought to a company have particular privileges that no different company has on this day?

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CAVUTO: All proper, illegally, can these particular privileges be taken away and might the impetus for that the corporate’s opposition to this newest piece of laws that has gotten the land of the mouse ears in quite a lot of sizzling water?

Mercedes Colwin FOX Information analyst, what she makes of this.

Mercedes, can the state strip away that privilege proper now we’ve twenty years, over Disney’s opposition?

MERCEDES COLWIN, FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST: They’ll as a result of it’s a regulation that may be repealed by means of the legislature, nevertheless it goes to precisely what you stated, Neil. What was the impetus behind it?

Frankly, that is the opposition. We dwell in a free nation. We dwell in a rustic that we are able to specific our opinions and concepts. And Disney was — it had a Hobson’s selection. They’ve — Disney World has 32,000 staff. There was a sensitivity to that specific regulation. They raised their objections.

It isn’t that they’ll have such undue affect over the legislature to really make an influence as as to whether or not that regulation will proceed in impact. And — however with respect to repealing the regulation, it could be disastrous.

What if the Disney Company determined, superb, you need to repeal it, then we’re not going to broaden. And in the event you’re not going to broaden Disney World, that is the entire impetus behind the regulation to start with again in 1967, enable them to self-govern, so they do not have the zoning legal guidelines to take care of. May they — might conceivably constructed that fortress, coping with all of the variances and the zoning legal guidelines and every thing else that goes into play?

It in the end will create an influence, a monetary influence to Florida. So I feel either side simply need to have a cooling-off interval. Let’s sit again, let’s actually take into consideration what’s being requested. Do not take such a punitive measure towards Disney World. Let’s — clearly, the governor is entitled to his opinion. He can definitely specific it.

However Disney World additionally has — is entitled to their opinion, particularly after they have so many staff that felt a sure manner and felt that their voices wanted to be heard.

CAVUTO: Properly, apparently, there are many staff as effectively who do not fall that sure manner and who had been against Disney taking this kowtowing to at least one sector of the inhabitants.

Now, and the battle goes on. I am simply questioning whether or not the governor, although, holds the playing cards right here, as a result of it is not as if Disney can up and get out of the state, useful although it’s to the state as its largest employer, in fact, a magnet for income that is available in hand over fist.

COLWIN: Proper. Positive.

CAVUTO: I am simply questioning the way you assume all of it kinds out.

COLWIN: Frankly, I feel Disney will proceed to specific their opinions. They clearly have a really giant group of staff that felt very delicate concerning the legal guidelines. It really resonated across the nation, as .

So they are going to have the ability to need to stability the wants of their staff and the truth that they must be delicate. There are all these anti- discrimination legal guidelines that exist across the nation. They must be delicate to these people that fall beneath these protected classes who’ve raised issues.

CAVUTO: However how — I assume what I am questioning, Mercedes, how are these — is that inhabitants damage by one thing that restricts these teachings to these between kindergarten and third grade, would not take away them for these older than that, however for that younger, impressionable group?

You’ll be able to shuttle on this.

COLWIN: Positive.

CAVUTO: But it surely’s not fairly that black and white, proper?

COLWIN: No, you are proper.

However — Neil, however let’s simply shift to what’s on the core. It is a sensitivity to LGBTQ+ youth. And that is the place — that is the place the rub is available in. That is the place there’s this problem for Disney, who’ve — clearly have staff that fall in that class. And if Disney would not take a proactive method with respect to the opinions of these people, perhaps there will likely be employment choices, all of a sudden that these people that slot in that class, of LGBTQ+ class, they stated, effectively, I did not get that promotion due to that — my orientation.

CAVUTO: I see.

COLWIN: That is the place it begins to form of mix. In order that’s most likely why Disney determined it needed to do what it wanted to do and expressed their opinion.

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CAVUTO: Sure, as a result of, in the event you get away from all the warmth and rhetoric, it is that kindergarten to 3rd grade route.

COLWIN: Precisely.

CAVUTO: It isn’t an anti-gay measure, per se. However we’ll watch it very, very intently.

Mercedes Colwin, thanks very, very a lot.

Within the meantime, specializing in Elon Musk and what he is to this point, it appears to be like like he is received that plan B. And it appears to be like like we received extra particulars aren’t precisely what that plan B entails. I offers you a touch, extra money.

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CAVUTO: It is fairly clear proper now Elon Musk’s technique to take the social media large Twitter, present that the board is ineffective and that only a few members personal any inventory. In reality, they don’t have any vested curiosity in, effectively, how the corporate does for shareholders.

So shareholders ought to need, effectively, no matter he is providing. Then there’s the difficulty of simply not paying these board members, interval, that does the corporate actually need to pay upwards of $300,000 per board member for one thing that’s, within the eyes of Pat (sic) Dorsey, the founder, a dysfunctional board?

Let’s go to Jonathan Turley, the G.W. regulation professor, FOX Information contributor.

It comes again to that, would not it, Jonathan, the usefulness of a board that, no less than in accordance with Elon Musk, and perhaps confirmed by Pat (sic) Dorsey, the founder, is not doing its job and is dysfunctional at finest. What do you consider that authorized technique?

JONATHAN TURLEY, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Properly, there’s a disconnect between what the board has carried out for a few years and the pursuits of the company itself.

This can be a board that has made Twitter synonymous with censorship. And promoting censorship shouldn’t be a big-ticket merchandise for most individuals. They do not actually — there’s not lots of people who actually need to discover better management over their very own expression of viewpoints.

And so what Twitter’s board has carried out is principally proper off half the inhabitants. They’ve been concentrating on conservatives. They’ve been concentrating on dissenting voices. And that has ended up suppressing the expansion of the corporate. The corporate has not carried out in addition to it might.

And so the query for shareholders is whether or not the board is actually taking part in with their cash, advancing their political agenda, however utilizing their cash to take action. There are legal guidelines that enable shareholders to sue after they really feel {that a} board is not performing of their finest curiosity, is violating their responsibility a fiduciary care.

Twitter’s board appears dangerously near that line, in the event that they have not already crossed it.

CAVUTO: The distinction with Twitter and a few of these different social media giants which may have equally left-leaning boards is that their shares are doing so significantly better.

If this inventory did not stink as a lot because it did and does, would this — even coming to actuality now?

TURLEY: Sure, I imply, this can be a going to be a really attention-grabbing case, as a result of there are shareholders who’re expressing discontent with this board.

And this has been a problem, the place firms have adopted woke insurance policies…

CAVUTO: Proper.

TURLEY: … that aren’t essentially good for the enterprise as a lot as they advance, clearly, political, social justice points.

And the query is how a lot shareholders can object to that and say that you just’re actually presupposed to be attempting to enhance shareholder income, and, as an alternative, you are placing these insurance policies forward of income? That is a troublesome line for a court docket to strive to attract.

However, with Twitter, it is a a lot — as you’ve gotten famous, it is a way more stark distinction. I imply, they are a communications nation firm towards free speech. That is like being an car firm towards automobiles.

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TURLEY: Folks come to their firm to specific their viewpoint. And after they get there, Twitter says, we will handle your viewpoint, and we will censor those that we disagree with.

Properly, that is not precisely advertising and marketing technique. And you’ll see that of their earnings. And you’ll see that and their numbers.

CAVUTO: Very, superb level.

I knew you had been an amazing lawyer, Jonathan, however now you are type of crowding in on my house right here by so superbly explaining this complete course of, and the way the entire enterprise factor works out.

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CAVUTO: So I am by no means having you on once more.

Jonathan, significantly, superb job.

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CAVUTO: I admire it.

TURLEY: Thanks, Neil.

CAVUTO: Jonathan Turley on all of that.

Meantime, looking at what is going on on in Ukraine, not the jap offensive, which you’ve gotten heard a lot about, however the way it’s falling out in areas not even close to that — after this.

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CAVUTO: You surprise what life is like in Ukraine after the Russians assault?

Trey Yingst came upon for himself, as he repeatedly has by means of this horrific battle. He joins us in Kyiv — Trey.

TREY YINGST, FOX NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Neil, amid that renewed offensive within the jap a part of Ukraine, the aftermath of Russian atrocities close to the capital coming to mild.

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YINGST (voice-over): Yuri Ostapchenko walks by means of a gate resulting in his vegetable backyard within the city of Borodyanka.

A number of weeks in the past, he buried his neighbor right here after the person was shot lifeless by Russian troops. “We coated the grave with roofing panels as a result of the canine had been digging it up,” he says, subsequent to a pile of dust topped with a picket cross. Yuri explains, the Russians used machine weapons to kill the person subsequent door who was attempting to repair a damaged gasoline line on their avenue.

“I heard the burst of gunfire,” Yuri remembers. “He jumped into my yard and simply fell over lifeless.”

Most of Borodyanka is in ruins. The our bodies of some residents nonetheless stay beneath piles of rubble, restoration efforts slowed as crews discover unexploded shells amid the particles.

(on digicam): Right here within the city of Borodyanka, the destruction is widespread. Russian tanks and artillery items wiped off the map residential blocks the place individuals had been dwelling on the time, merely attempting to outlive amid the Russian occupation exterior the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

You’ll be able to see right here one condo constructing that was utterly destroyed.

(voice-over): Mykola Kutsikovich lived on the fourth flooring of this complicated for practically 40 years. It is the place he raised his household. All that is left of his dwelling now are recollections.

“We had life right here. Our youngsters had been born on this condo. Our grandchildren stayed right here,” he says. “Now we do not know how one can go on and the place to dwell.”

Borodyanka was final occupied by Nazi Germany in 1943; 79 years later, the Russians did the identical, inflicting their very own terror onto an harmless inhabitants. The collective trauma the Ukrainians are experiencing will stick with them lengthy after this battle ends. You see it of their eyes. You hear it of their voices.

These like 67-year-old Lubov Betestenkyo have questions on how mankind may very well be so merciless.

“I need to converse to the moms and sisters of Russian troopers and to all of the relations of these criminals,” she exclaims. “Why did you do that to us? For what? Are you not even human beings?”

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YINGST: Neil, the phrases of that girl in Borodyanka underscore what the Russians did to the Ukrainian individuals.

They took away their humanity, but they continue to be resilient right here, not solely within the capital of Kyiv, however throughout this nation — Neil.

CAVUTO: Trey, the horror that many who’re lucky sufficient to return to their properties uncover is that the properties are gone.

What do they do? The place do they go?

YINGST: Many individuals do not know.

And that’s such a large query on the minds of so many Ukrainians, Neil. And so they ask us, are there assets out? Are there places the place we are able to go to? And also you hear the church bells behind me. They’re attempting to dwell with some sense of normalcy right here within the capital.

However but these questions stay — Neil.

CAVUTO: Trey Yingst, be protected, my pal.

Trey in Kyiv Ukraine, within the outskirts that metropolis that you’ve got the understanding that the Russians have given up on. Perhaps they have not, and perhaps that is simply their early calling card. We simply do not know. We all know {that a} new battle, a brand new land battle within the east, is on, and it is anticipated to be brutal.

This is “THE FIVE.”

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